I loved this essay so much! - at once funny and serious, and beautiful.
It was fun to re-encounter the Indigenous barbecue here; a couple of chapters of my first book (Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and monsters) were about the invention of the New World cannibal in European maps and prints. Lots of human body parts of spits and barbecues in the book illustrations...
I loved this essay so much! - at once funny and serious, and beautiful. It was fun to re-encounter the Indigenous barbecue here; a couple of chapters of my first book (Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and monsters) were about the invention of the New World cannibal in European maps and prints. Lots of human body parts of spits and barbecues in the book illustrations...